Crystal River current., 1887-06-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

uc llcSuytcEidu OcneFdl Assembly
will meet in Philadelphia next year.
The City of Mexico was severely
shaken up by earthquakes last week.
1t is estimated that the decrease IN
the public debt for May was 100000.
The damage to timber IN the Upper
Michigan Peninsula by fires is estimated at
s., 100000.
Major Ben. Perley Poore, the veter-
an Washington correspondent, died in that
city last week.
The death of ex-Vice President
Wheeler is expected at any time. He is
unconscious.
The Canadian Senate has declared
that divorce obtained in the United States
| is worthless in Canada.
Mary Anderson is said to have pur-
chased $4,000 worth of property at Man
chester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
Two hotels at Santa Cruz, California.
the Swanton and Santa Cruz houses, burned.
Loss, $50, 1000; partly insured.
By an accident on the Pennsylvania
railroad last Saturday eight persons were
killed outright and six injured.
Five men are held at Austin, Texas,
on the charge of being portion Of the party
that recently robbed the express train.
In fight with bandits near the Rio
Grande the Mexican Customs officials man
aged to kill one out of seven of the party.
George W. Childs offers to place a
Longfellow window in Memorial Hall at
Harvard College, to cost not less than &c.,
600.
Up to the present date eighty two
newspapers of Texas favor Prohibition,
while but twenty-one have taken the other
side.
| The International Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers held their annual
meeting in Columbus, Ohio, last week with
1,s0O engineers present.
| There are murmurs over the awards
at the National Drill. 1t is claimed that
the Southern companies were given more
prizes than they earned,
On account of the prevalence of pleu-
ro-pneumonia in Scotland importations of
cattle from that country into the United
States have been prohibited.
| The Postmaster of Fort Lincoln, Da-
kota, was accused of Irregularities and he
disappeared. His body has since been
found in the Missouri River.
| The wholesale grocers of St. Louis
assert that the Missouri Pacific road is not
dealing justly in its rates, and they will
complain to the Interstate Commission.
The Government organ in Rome
says reconciliation between the Vatican
and the Italian Government IS only ques-
ton of time and that Italy can wait calmly,
English engineers are reported to be
actively fortifying Herat. They propose to
make the place SO strong that garrison of
10000 men can stand a siege for ninety
days.
During March and April 5000 Chi
nese left Hong Kong for the United
States. fearing that the proposed new treaty
might deprive them of some Of their privi-
leges.
| Thirty-two suits have been brought
against the Boston & Providence Railroad
Company by one attorney on behalf of that
number of sufferers by the Busy bridge
disaster.
Eighty-four Irish emigrants who
were detained on the Allan steamer Scandi-
navian at Philadelphia are to be forwarded
to their friends at the expense of the Brit
| ish Government
Files, of Chicago. and Reagan, of
Brooklyn, fought nearly three hours in
dancing pavilion thirty miles from New
York, and in the forty-fourth round Files
was knocked out.
American and Mexican troops united
in an attack upon gang of bandits on the
Rio Grande, killing one, wounding several
and capturing a number. large amount
of stolen stock was found.
William Showers was arrested at
Annville, Pennsylvania, on the charge of
numbering two illegitimate sons of his
daughter. The victims were only and 5
years old. He has confessed.
One white and two colored convicts
in attempting to escape from Kentucky
camp" mortally wounded the overseer,
and all of them were in turn shot by the
guard, two with fatal results.
| Paris is greatly excited over the
formation of cabinet which leaves out
General Boulanger. Great crowds parade
the streets shouting Long live Boulanger,'
I'VE will have him!' ETC., etc.
The falling of a candle in the Catho-
lie Cathedral at Chihuahua, Mexico, caused
a panic among the people. In the rush
several children were killed and number
of women were severely injured.
Exciting times are reported at the at
tempt to evict some tenants at Bodyke.
During the fight the Sheriff was Frustrated
with epilepsy and truce ensued. The
tenants are strengthening their defences.
| One hundred feet of the Mullen tun-
mel on the Northern Pacific road Is blocked